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kcentv.com - Kcen HD - Waco, Temple, and Killeen One teen is turning body shaming into something good. Dannie "Dee" McMillan was in study hall when someone texted her about a Twitter account a classmate had made called "Dee is a Fat Whale." "The moment I got out of that classroom, I just started crying," Dee told Kcen. "I was just really upset. I think I got angry after a little bit. But, at first I was just so embarrassed." "It's sickening. You hate to hear that. You hate to see your kids in pain or troubled," her dad,

kcentv.com - Kcen HD - Waco, Temple, and Killeen One teen is turning body shaming into something good. Dannie "Dee" McMillan was in study hall when someone texted her about a Twitter account a classmate had made called "Dee is a Fat Whale." "The moment I got out of that classroom, I just started crying," Dee told Kcen. "I was just really upset. I think I got angry after a little bit. But, at first I was just so embarrassed." "It's sickening. You hate to hear that. You hate to see your kids in pain or troubled," her dad,

Wendy Williams hosts celebrities on her talk show all the time – but outside of work, not so much.

"I feel like there's a lot of pressure that celebrities put on themselves to fraternize with one another," Williams says in the spring issue of DuJour magazine. "It's like, you wouldn't have been friends with fat Wendy in 10th grade, so why am I going to be hanging out with you now?"

The Wendy Williams Show host – who lost 50 lbs. over three years – has been open about her struggles with weight and being "fat Wendy" growing up.

Wendy Williams hosts celebrities on her talk show all the time - but outside of work, not so much. "I feel like there's a lot of pressure that celebrities put on themselves to fraternize with one another," Williams says in the spring issue of DuJour magazine. "It's like, you wouldn't have been friends with fat Wendy in 10th grade, so why am I going to be hanging out with you now?" The Wendy Williams Show host - who lost 50 lbs. over three years - has been open about her struggles with weight and being "fat Wendy" growing up. "My first

Wendy Williams hosts celebrities on her talk show all the time - but outside of work, not so much. "I feel like there's a lot of pressure that celebrities put on themselves to fraternize with one another," Williams says in the spring issue of DuJour magazine. "It's like, you wouldn't have been friends with fat Wendy in 10th grade, so why am I going to be hanging out with you now?" The Wendy Williams Show host - who lost 50 lbs. over three years - has been open about her struggles with weight and being "fat Wendy" growing up. "My first

An anonymous British man with a distinctive accent, a fondness for stick figures, and a penchant for foul language is on the warpath. His name is GradeAUnderA, and in his videos, he speaks his mind about the b.s. he smells on the Internet. Grade's videos cover a variety of topics, but his most famous ones concern the YouTube community. By sharing well-reasoned arguments against controversial creators like Jinx, Nicole Arbour, and Vegan Gains, Grade has positioned himself as a foremost authority on YouTube drama. Along the way, he's gone viral on Reddit a number of times, and as a result, his is one of the fastest-growing channels in the business.

We wanted to learn more about YouTube's foremost muckraker, so as he surpassed one million subscribers, we talked to him about his work:

Tubefilter: How does it feel to have one million subscribers? What do you have to say to your fans?

Writer/director Pat Mills was one of our favorite discoveries out of 2014 following the premiere of his debut Guidance at the Toronto International Film Festival (Strand distributed the film in late August of 2015 and it’s currently streaming on Netflix). The Toronto based filmmaker is already at work on his sophomore feature, Don’t Talk to Irene, a project which took home the Best Screenplay award at the 2013 Austin Film Festival. Returning once more to the developmental hell of high school, the film is a body positive teen dance movie about a 16 year old named Irene who dreams of becoming a cheerleader despite the cruelty of her peers. Just prior to production, the choreographer Mills had been circling to hire for the film, Nicole Arbour, ended up in a social media firestorm with an insensitive YouTube video titled “Dear

Nicole Arbour is at it again. The Canadian comedian — who received a crazy amount of backlash for her "Dear Fat People" video — posted a new controversial clip about abortion on Friday, Sept. 18. Arbour, 30, titled the five-minute video "Why Abortion is Wrong!" but listed reasons why abortions should be allowed instead. "Today we are going to talk about abortions because it has been tearing up my insides. Sorry, that was sick," Arbour says in the clip. "Abortions are wrong - said no smart person ever! [...]

Nicole Arbour is at it again. Arbour defended her controversial "Dear Fat People" video throughout the backlash, but now she might have to defend her newest video titled, "Why Abortion Is Wrong!" Even though the title might have viewers believe it is a 5-minute clip that talks about pro-life opinions, it turns out Arbour actually speaks about why the world should allow abortions. "Abortions are wrong, said no smart person ever," she begins the video. Based on the criticism she faced following her fat-shaming video a few weeks ago, it seems Arbour is more than aware of what she'll face with this latest installment, as she directly addresses her critics in the...

The tables have turned once again. In fact, we're getting dizzy at this point. Nicole Arbour, the YouTube sensation under fire for her "Dear Fat People" viral video, is throwing The View's panelists under the bus after supposedly overhearing even more controversial comments made by them during the taping of the show. When Arbour joined the ladies of the round table on Wednesday to discuss the backlash she's been facing for her own notorious video, she says after the fact that she was in the perfect place for even more juicy content when the cameras turned off. While backstage, she says she overheard the ladies, particularly co-host Michelle Collins, reacting to the comments they had just made...

Nicole Arbour is continuing to defend her "Dear Fat People" YouTube video despite the major backlash it has received.

The comedian and YouTube star appeared on The View on Wednesday, stating that the video was actually meant to be offensive.

"That video was made to offend people, just the way I do with all my other videos," Arbour said on the show. "It's just satire, it's just being silly. I'm just having a bit of fun, and that's what we did."

"That topic was actually voted in by fans, some of whom are fat," she continued. "They're like, 'You can't

Nicole Arbour still bears no remorse over her fat-shaming viral video, while the co-hosts of The View have weighed in on her remarks...to her face. The 30-year-old YouTube personality and self-proclaimed comedian appeared on the ABC show on Wednesday to talk about her expletive-filled "Dear Fat People" clip, which sparked controversy and cost her a movie role. The video has been watched more than 5.3 million times in two weeks, during which her YouTube account was suspended and then reinstated. "You know, a lot of people were offended. Were you surprised?" Whoopi Goldberg asked Arbour, who cursed several times during the interview. "Frankly,...

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Pat Mills, who directed of Tiff'14 critically acclaimed "Guidance," did have the intention to hire Nicole Arbour to play a cheerleader in his upcoming film dealing with overweight teen empowerment: "Don't Talk to Irene.

This week Arbour was at the center of media storm after her YouTube video, "Dear Fat People," exploded online and exposed her views on overweight individuals.

My name is Pat Mills. I am a Toronto-based filmmaker in pre-production on my second feature film. It's a body-positive teen dance movie set in a retirement home. It's about a sixteen year old girl who dreams of being a cheerleader, but she is constantly bullied for being fat. She learns that she doesn't have to change anything about herself to be awesome because she already is. The title is "Don't Talk to Irene." We are scheduled to shoot next month.

I've been developing the script for several years. I am excited to shoot this - and the message is important to me. I'm gay. I was bullied a lot as a kid. I wore purple jogging pants every day during the seventh grade - you can imagine what that did to my social life. I am no stranger to ridicule and loneliness. It's made me a sensitive storyteller, but it also developed my sense of humour. And now I make comedy movies set in high school. I guess I never got over high school. Every filmmaker has an obsession, right?

"Don't Talk to Irene" is a dance movie, so obviously we needed a choreographer. We met with a woman who not only did traditional dance choreography, but was a cheerleader as well. She was fun and nice and had a lot of energy. She even had a YouTube channel and identified as a "youtuber". She seemed like a perfect fit for the project. I shared the script with her. She said she dug it and was excited to come on board. I was supposed to get together with her this week for what she called a "choreo party" to watch my favourite dance scenes and talk ideas. And then a crazy thing happened on Saturday - I saw something on the internet that made me never want to see her again. Her name is Nicole Arbour.

I was randomly checking Facebook and a comment on a video popped up. The video is called "Dear Fat People" - it's an unfunny and cruel fat-shaming video that guises itself about being about "health." It's fat phobic and awful. It went on for over for six minutes. I felt like I had been punched in the gut. I was so upset I was shaking like Shelley DuVall in the "The Shining."

Bullies like Nicole Arbour are the reason I am making this movie. I'm tired of body shaming. It's everywhere. This nice choreographer I met turned out to be the reason I wrote this movie. Her video added an offensive twist to the development of this film. I was shocked.

It's very odd that we live in a world now where people post their opinions on YouTube (to get views), but they cannot say these opinions to our faces. My film celebrates being different. It celebrates not fitting in. I want to arm teen girls of all sizes with confidence. People like Nicole Arbour strip this confidence away. She knew what my movie was about. Why couldn't she express these opinions to my face? I guess talking the old fashioned way won't get you internet-famous.

I've learned that the people who shame fat people hiding under an excuse that it's about their "health" are the same people who ridicule them when they see them working out at the gym.

Nicole: Did you even read my script? It is a body positive teen movie. It has a message that is in direct opposition to your cruel and lame YouTube rant.

On behalf of all of us who have been bullied and have a taste for comedy that doesn't make people feel shitty about themselves, "Fat shaming" is very much a thing. It's just as real as not getting a job because of your hateful opinions that you call "comedy." We will not be working together.

Nicole Arbour was reportedly fired from working on the film, Don’t Talk to Irene, after her controversial “Dear Fat People” YouTube video went viral. Nicole Arbour Fired From Movie Job After “Dear Fat People” Vid Arbour, a stand up comedian and YouTuber, was reportedly fired from her job choreographing an anti-bullying dance film titled Don’t […]

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Despite the fallout that continues to plague Nicole Arbour since she shared her "Dear Fat People" video on YouTube, she's defending her comedy. In a radio interview with the BBC, Arbour explained that she only wanted to find humor in an unfunny subject. "My aim was to make people laugh, and I think that's pretty darn noble," she said. But Arbour, whose video has been viewed more than 20 million times and was even taken down from YouTube for its offensive nature, said her controversial video was made for a specific audience and that people were blowing it out of proportion. "The video was about obese people," she added. "I was very specific that it's not the average guy with...

No apologies here. Nicole Arbour is defending her controversial "Dear Fat People" video, which reportedly led to her losing a movie role. The Canadian YouTube star laughed off the ongoing backlash during an interview with BBC on Friday, Sept. 11. "My aim was to make people laugh. I think that's pretty darn noble," Arbour, 28, said. "Whenever I do a video, there's always comedy mixed with some satire, some stinging truths, and a resolution at the end." She added: "I don't shame people. It was an act. It [...]

And the hits keep on coming. YouTube star Nicole Arbour has reportedly been fired from a movie role just days after posting a controversial video titled "Dear Fat People." The Canadian comedian-actress shared the now-viral clip on Thursday, Sept. 3. The video was taken down after it garnered over 700,000 views — and a heap of backlash. Arbour claimed it was satire, but many people saw it as cruel. The director of her upcoming project, Pat Mills, also didn't find much humor in it. "[I’m making] a dance [...]

Karma's a bitch. Days after posting a controversial video on YouTube titled "Dear Fat People"—where she jokes about obesity and even compares some overweight people to slow-moving zombies—Nicole Arbour is out of the job. It turns out that Pat Mills has decided to drop the YouTube star from an upcoming movie and told Zap2it why he never wants to see Arbour again. "[I'm making] a dance movie, so obviously we needed a choreographer. We met with a woman who not only did traditional dance choreography, but was a cheerleader as well. She was fun and nice and had a lot of energy," Mills told the site. "She seemed like a perfect fit for the project. I shared the...

The model, 29, addressed the controversial video in an interview with People Now on Thursday, and said the disgraced social media personality was not only being "mean unnecessarily," but also helped perpetuate the very negativity she claimed doesn't exist.

"Yes, Nicole, there is such a thing as fat-shaming," Chrissy said, "and you're doing it right now."

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